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Taxation and Finance, Jon C. Teaford(
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) ...had boasted. Yet the various governments of the Chicago area remained solvent. The property tax...
...alternate sources of revenue. From the 1830s on, Chicago's city government levied a property tax,...
...improvements supplemented the property tax. Chicago relied more heavily on such assessments than...
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Quarrying, Stone Cutting, and Brick Making, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...During the years when Chicago grew from a small town into a metropolis, quarries in Cook and Will...
...quarries southwest of Chicago, near the town of Lemont along the Illinois & Michigan Canal ,...
...and brick was a major economic activity in the Chicago area. Millions of tons of limestone quarried...
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Wrestling, Robert Pruter(
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) ...In the suburbs, pro wrestlers competed at town fairs. Local professional wrestling essentially died...
...Chicago's wrestling tradition began in 1887, at Battery D Armory, where Evan “Strangler” Lewis beat...
...Coliseum. From the 1930s through the 1950s, the Chicago Stadium hosted famous matches featuring such...
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Ice Skating, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
...Growing Up Along Water Interpretive Digital Essay : Water in Chicago Water...
...in Chicago Essay: People and the Port Photo Essays: Solitary Lives City of Bridges Chicago Harbors...
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Kouts, IN, Erik Gellman(
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) ...A trading post existed just southwest of the town on the Kankakee River during theearly nineteenth...
...around a railroad station in the nineteenth century. The town has remained sparsely populated....
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Logan Square, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
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) ...settlers soon joined Kimbell in what was then the town of Jefferson . Beginning in 1850, farmers in...
...large, densely populated community northwest of Chicago's Loop . Long home to immigrant populations,...
...is named. The area is bounded on the east by the Chicago River and bisected diagonally by Milwaukee...
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Fire of 1871, Karen Sawislak(
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) ...place of opportunity, renewal, and future promise. i3524 Aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire, 1871....
...Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Public Library. FIGURE 1...
...gale-force wind, this blaze grew into the Great Chicago Fire. Advancing northward for 36 hours, the...
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Rap, Mark Swartz(
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) ...this hardly equaled the impact made on both coasts. Chicago rap acts have originated from the city's...
...lion's share of important rap artists, whereas Chicago has contributed little to the genre—little,...
...Bowl Shuffle,” a novelty hit recorded by the Chicago Bears football team in 1985. Meanwhile, it...
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Bridges, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...to bridge house to open the others. The U.S. Coast Guard has accepted lower vertical clearances for...
...18th and Canal. i3185 Looking east along the Chicago River at the LaSalle Street Bridge prior to...
...completion, 1928. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1...
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Bensenville, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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) ...Bensenville has evolved from rural farming community to railroad town to mature airport suburb,...
...reflecting the changes of the Chicago area. As in other DuPage communities, the Potawatomi tribe...
...dairy products. A stage road connecting Chicago, Elgin, and Galena and a plankroad that paralleled...
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Welsh, Anne Kelly Knowles(
Authored Entry
) ...areas or coal and iron towns. For one moment, however, the Welsh did make their presence felt in...
...The Welsh have left a light trace on Chicago. Although the city was once home to one of the largest...
...They tended to pass through cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago en route to agricultural...
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Rapid Transit System, Ronald Dale Karr(
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) ...line to Midway Airport opened in 1993. At the turn of the century the old elevated structures, some...
...more than a century old, were being rebuilt, ensuring their survival well into the twenty-first...
...as did public ownership after World War II. The new Chicago Transit Authority closed several lightly...
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Wauconda, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...small commercial center developed. While Rand Road, the old mail route to Janesville, now Route 12,...
...of area land. They called the unincorporated town Bangs Lake, although others called the community “...
...of the new residents were ex-soldiers from Chicago's West and Northwest Sides, living in converted...
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Malaysians, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...nations, forming small communities in the Midwest and larger ones on the West Coast and in New York....
...Malaysians have been migrating to Chicago since the 1970s for occupational and educational...
...Chicago-area universities continued to draw Malaysian students throughout the 1980s and 1990s as...
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Tinley Park, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...working to preserve its history. The area of the old 1892 village has been designated a historic...
...Tinley Park Historical Society has renovated the Old Zion Landmark Church for use as its museum and...
...especially at the Oak Forest site to the east of town. The site, on the Tinley Moraine, overlooking...
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Markham, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...and incorporated Markham in 1925, naming their town in honor of Charles H. Markham, then president...
...are Markham's most celebrated natural features: the Old Indian Boundary Prairies. German immigrants...
...Forest, one of which survived until 1985 along the Old Indian Boundary Line, becoming the Lone Pine...
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Colleges, Junior and Community, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...public junior college movement was born in the Chicago area due to the leadership of William Rainey...
...the first president of the University of Chicago , distinguished between the general education of...
...community college. With Harper's successors at Chicago uninterested in the junior colleges, their...
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Philip Armour and the Packing Industry, Louise Carroll Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...farm in 1832, he spent time in the California gold fields before joining a provision firm and then a...
...to deliver chilled, fresh beef. Like other Chicago packers, Armour resisted trade unions and helped...
...in January 1901. His son, J. Ogden Armour, succeeded him as head of the vast enterprise in Chicago....
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Industry, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...innovative neighbors. Back | Page 1 | Page 2 | Forward The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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Children's Museums, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...recycling, while Kohl's “All Aboard” took children on a mock Chicago Transit Authority train ride...
...through the streets of Chicago. Other children's museums include the Dupage Children's Museum (1987)...
...Chicago is home to a number of museums designed especially foryoung people, including the Chicago...
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